sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
dj funk, who did a remix for justice, is the ultimate sleazeball. but hardly minimal.
Minimal house anthems
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Since I don't go to any minimal club nights (again, if only I was in berlin!) i can't claim to really know what's big, but how about:
claud vonstroke - who's afraid of detroit
lazy fat people - shinjuku
cobblestone jazz - dump truck
all those cc remixes seconded. also his more recents ones of the junior boys and faze action are pretty dope.
also all the radioslave remixes from last year, the ones of kissogram and the knife being my favorite.
and the liebe detail stuff: lohn & brot as mention above, matthias meyer - reichenbach definitely. Don't know if it's considered "big" since it just came out, but the new sebo definitely wins my award for biggest WTF? sound in a techno song this year with those horn blasts. Sounds like john williams making minimal house.
lots of other stuff i'm sure. all of stephan bodzin's remixes. gui boratto's stuff, arquipelago, sozinho and the supermayer mix of 'like you'...some of that's getting a bit older though...
claud vonstroke - who's afraid of detroit
lazy fat people - shinjuku
cobblestone jazz - dump truck
all those cc remixes seconded. also his more recents ones of the junior boys and faze action are pretty dope.
also all the radioslave remixes from last year, the ones of kissogram and the knife being my favorite.
and the liebe detail stuff: lohn & brot as mention above, matthias meyer - reichenbach definitely. Don't know if it's considered "big" since it just came out, but the new sebo definitely wins my award for biggest WTF? sound in a techno song this year with those horn blasts. Sounds like john williams making minimal house.
lots of other stuff i'm sure. all of stephan bodzin's remixes. gui boratto's stuff, arquipelago, sozinho and the supermayer mix of 'like you'...some of that's getting a bit older though...
some of the recentish stuff by serge santiago is massive...
kano - it's a war - serge santiago uk re-edit
dada life - the great fashionist swindle - serge santiago remix
other bits
the cut copy mix of the presets 'girl and the sea'
new audion track noiser
gusgus - hold you - namito & diringer mix
dub pistol's cover of rapture by blondie - prins thomas mix
lutzenkirchen - music for the girls - huggotron remix
all great but may not fit your definition of minimal.
bodzin's album liebe ist is out...
kano - it's a war - serge santiago uk re-edit
dada life - the great fashionist swindle - serge santiago remix
other bits
the cut copy mix of the presets 'girl and the sea'
new audion track noiser
gusgus - hold you - namito & diringer mix
dub pistol's cover of rapture by blondie - prins thomas mix
lutzenkirchen - music for the girls - huggotron remix
all great but may not fit your definition of minimal.
bodzin's album liebe ist is out...
when i say early i just mean the LP and anything before, before he switched his sound
thats interesting, and pleasing! deep that he conveys it so abstractly. i guess yeh the kind of squelchy bassline, sounds like its going to secrete something. i fucking love that tune, its so very very sick. such a nasty, banging sound
thats interesting, and pleasing! deep that he conveys it so abstractly. i guess yeh the kind of squelchy bassline, sounds like its going to secrete something. i fucking love that tune, its so very very sick. such a nasty, banging sound
psherburne
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I'm using the word "minimal" less and less (except when I forget, and say it automatically) simply because it's becoming more and more meaningless -- and the stuff that is remaining pretty firmly tied to minimalistic roots (like the Minus stuff and a lot of the North American clicky clicky stuff like Foundsound, etc.) I find a little underwhelming.
But big tunes are everywhere. Carl Craig is absolutely killing it -- his Junior Boys remix, "Falling Up" remix, Rhythm & Sound remix -- everything he touches is uniformly massive. Radio Slave is in similar territory; his remixes for Chelonis R. Jones, Kissogram, Trentemoller el all are all pretty huge. Bit of a one-trick pony maybe, but that doesn't really bother me. His REKIDS label is behind a lot of fairly monster tracks that bridge Teutonic minimal structures with a ravier UK sensibility; I particularly rate "My Bleep" (Roman Flügel's mix), Radio Slave's "Secret Base," Mr G.'s "ECG'd," Matt O'Brien's "Serotone," Rekid's "Next Stop Chicago," Discemi's "Data Sapiens (Radio Slave Mix)," Radio Slave's "Screaming Hands" -- total fucking anthem, that last one. Better still is Josh Wink's (I know!) upcoming remix of the latter. And the forthcoming "U Askin," from Mr. G, is a luscious slab of deep house.
Deep house seems to be the watchword this year -- a lot of the Germans are turning away from the steadfastly minimal sound, forgoing bleeps and bloops in favor of a, well, "deeper" palette, and drawing from Detroit techno, Chicago house and even New York house. Not a bad thing at all. Jerome Sydenham's remix of Argy's "1985," on Liebe Detail Spezial, is going to be huge this summer. Check the remixes of Move D's "Anne Will" on the same label for similar ideas.
The list goes on...
But big tunes are everywhere. Carl Craig is absolutely killing it -- his Junior Boys remix, "Falling Up" remix, Rhythm & Sound remix -- everything he touches is uniformly massive. Radio Slave is in similar territory; his remixes for Chelonis R. Jones, Kissogram, Trentemoller el all are all pretty huge. Bit of a one-trick pony maybe, but that doesn't really bother me. His REKIDS label is behind a lot of fairly monster tracks that bridge Teutonic minimal structures with a ravier UK sensibility; I particularly rate "My Bleep" (Roman Flügel's mix), Radio Slave's "Secret Base," Mr G.'s "ECG'd," Matt O'Brien's "Serotone," Rekid's "Next Stop Chicago," Discemi's "Data Sapiens (Radio Slave Mix)," Radio Slave's "Screaming Hands" -- total fucking anthem, that last one. Better still is Josh Wink's (I know!) upcoming remix of the latter. And the forthcoming "U Askin," from Mr. G, is a luscious slab of deep house.
Deep house seems to be the watchword this year -- a lot of the Germans are turning away from the steadfastly minimal sound, forgoing bleeps and bloops in favor of a, well, "deeper" palette, and drawing from Detroit techno, Chicago house and even New York house. Not a bad thing at all. Jerome Sydenham's remix of Argy's "1985," on Liebe Detail Spezial, is going to be huge this summer. Check the remixes of Move D's "Anne Will" on the same label for similar ideas.
The list goes on...
Same here. I don't really have a clue what's going on and don't recognise the names of most of the tracks being mentioned in this thread. i just buy records i like and i've actually got a couple of gigs this month to play 'em at. hurrah!
some releases i particularly like include:
Marcel dettman's Quicksand ( a personal anthem and general design for life)
Bovill - Differential EP
Marko Fustenburg - Surphased EP
Quantec - Subsurfer structure EP
Cornell - Polimer/Flounce
Mathias Schaffhauser - Go To Hell
Digitaline - Anticlockwise LP
Deadbeat/Monolake - Random Brown EP (and anything else by Deadbeat)
Anything by Substance & Vainqueur
Most things by Andy Stott, Sleeparchive, Claro intellecto, etc
broadly speaking all minimal, some a bit dubby, others a bit abstract house. blah blah.
thanks for blog links, btw. interesting stuff. i suppose i should review some of these records but having recently extricated myself from the 'dubstep blog' tag, i'm trying not to let my enthusiasm get out of hand again. i find the best thing to do is just search around at the online shops like Juno or Boomkat, listen to clips and just try and isolate what exactly it is you like. try not to be so influenced by what everyone else is saying.
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simon silverdollar
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huge record. give it time and it truly is a work of genius.
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
marcell dettman is amazing, i loved his remix of agaric. coincidentally, ronan from House is a feeling has just posted about his perception that there has been very few anthems yet this year.
One candidate i would have for an anthem so far is herbert - moving like a train.
I got noiser by audion, the new track and though it was good, but not excellent. Ronan talks about "I gave you away" as being better than mouth to mouth. I'll have to hunt it down.
Ps. nick, where are you playing that sort of stuff out?
One candidate i would have for an anthem so far is herbert - moving like a train.
I got noiser by audion, the new track and though it was good, but not excellent. Ronan talks about "I gave you away" as being better than mouth to mouth. I'll have to hunt it down.
Ps. nick, where are you playing that sort of stuff out?
what do you all make of have to get back by (josh!) wink off the richie hawtin min2max compilation?
i think its the best techno track i've heard in a long time,i couldn't believe it when i found out who it was by.
i was reading a book when the track came on and dancing around my room by the end of it
i think its the best techno track i've heard in a long time,i couldn't believe it when i found out who it was by.
i was reading a book when the track came on and dancing around my room by the end of it
At dubstep nights in Bristol. They don't know it yet though. I might never get invited back, LOL!!
Funnily enough the first time i played out dubstep was to a bemused crowd at a Venetian Snares/ IDM night in Newport a couple of years back. i have this death wish thing.
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sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
ha well if its good as the post natal oppression mix i'm sure everyone'll be jumping. What wink track was on that cd? I heard swirl and thought it was crap. Hes playing later this month with villalobos and loco dice in glasgow so i'll see him then.
Alfons
Way of the future
Couple of minimal tunes and artist I like (if minimal even means anything nowadays as people have mentioned):
Audion - Mouth to Mouth
Marc Houle - Bay of Figs
Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Konrad Black Remix)
Ambivalent - R U OK
Thomas Schumacher - Rotor
Claude Vonstroke - Deepthroat and Who's Afraid of Detroit
Some of the album bits from Lusine and Gui Boratto I quite like and John Tejada is a favourite as well.
And I second all the Carl Craig recommendations.
Audion - Mouth to Mouth
Marc Houle - Bay of Figs
Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Konrad Black Remix)
Ambivalent - R U OK
Thomas Schumacher - Rotor
Claude Vonstroke - Deepthroat and Who's Afraid of Detroit
Some of the album bits from Lusine and Gui Boratto I quite like and John Tejada is a favourite as well.
And I second all the Carl Craig recommendations.
Got a real soft (hard?) spot for Audion's Titty Fuck. Noiser is big too.
Wink's Have To Get Back was getting some love up thread too and I totally agree. I prefer the version with vocals though - kinda reminds me of Plastikman. Poor old Wink gets a lot of stick these days. I know he's produced a fair amount of shit but he's responsible for a couple of classics too (even if they do all sound the same). I rate him as a DJ too although I haven't been to a gig of his in years. He used to play real deep back in the 90s, at least whenever I heard him, and I had a couple of great cassettes which have needless to say disappeared since. His Profound Sounds series is pretty good too. Heard a recent set (from WMC I think) which was great in spots but which totally pissed me off by ending in 15 minutes of Higher State variations... Get over it dude! So yeah I guess he is a bit hit and miss.
Think my favourite track from this year is on XDB's Descap EP: http://www.discogs.com/release/924645. The live version on the A side is an astounding slab of deep, grainy techno which sounds incredible at high volumes. Mastered at D & M too so you know it's gonna work.
Interesting to hear PS's comments on deep house. Some signs there I guess. Check Sascha Dive's new EP: http://www.discogs.com/release/950480 which, as one of its tracks suggests, is DEEP in rhythm. Not sure if he / she / they are from Berlin but yet another D & M connection would suggest so. And shit, I mean even Sleeparchive's Perspective sounds to me like it's only a handclap away from the disco...
Anyway lots of good recommendations so far to check out. Ta.
Wink's Have To Get Back was getting some love up thread too and I totally agree. I prefer the version with vocals though - kinda reminds me of Plastikman. Poor old Wink gets a lot of stick these days. I know he's produced a fair amount of shit but he's responsible for a couple of classics too (even if they do all sound the same). I rate him as a DJ too although I haven't been to a gig of his in years. He used to play real deep back in the 90s, at least whenever I heard him, and I had a couple of great cassettes which have needless to say disappeared since. His Profound Sounds series is pretty good too. Heard a recent set (from WMC I think) which was great in spots but which totally pissed me off by ending in 15 minutes of Higher State variations... Get over it dude! So yeah I guess he is a bit hit and miss.
Think my favourite track from this year is on XDB's Descap EP: http://www.discogs.com/release/924645. The live version on the A side is an astounding slab of deep, grainy techno which sounds incredible at high volumes. Mastered at D & M too so you know it's gonna work.
Interesting to hear PS's comments on deep house. Some signs there I guess. Check Sascha Dive's new EP: http://www.discogs.com/release/950480 which, as one of its tracks suggests, is DEEP in rhythm. Not sure if he / she / they are from Berlin but yet another D & M connection would suggest so. And shit, I mean even Sleeparchive's Perspective sounds to me like it's only a handclap away from the disco...
Anyway lots of good recommendations so far to check out. Ta.
Love the instrumental of Have To Get Back. On the download of the Vocal as I type.
Actually caught Wink down at Godskitchen last summer and was suprised just how good his set was. Very much in the vein of Have To Get Back rather than Higher State. Another big surprise was that Eric Prydz, who played afterwards, was incredibly impressive on the electro/minimal thing.
As far as I'm concerned minimal is pretty much made of broken by the DJ. A tune that wouldn't get two looks as a blog download can suddenly jump out at you when spun in the right set. By the same token, listening to a badly constructed minimal set/mix cd is boring as fuck.
I'd be interested to see what DJs people rate etc. I'd probably say Magda, Luciano, Hawtin, Trentemoller, Loco Dice and Carl Craig are up amoungst the best. Jeff Mills seems to be on the minimal tip at the moment too and obviously deserves the reputation he's got...
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
While we're on alexs....alex smoke generally kills it as well.
But with a Maurizio remix!
i know i know, and that is very exciting, but it just seems a shame for such a bright, light, uplifting tune to be brought out at the precise point that the summer ends...
still it'll blatantly be rinsed by a number of top djs, or in fact anyone using cd decks! that'll be a glorious tune for outdoor parties
still it'll blatantly be rinsed by a number of top djs, or in fact anyone using cd decks! that'll be a glorious tune for outdoor parties
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